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Originally Posted by emilov
- still gotta sort out hyphenation
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Use the Kobo Touch Extended driver. You can enable hyphenation there. (I think it adds some CSS to make the rendering engine hyphenate words, but it doesn't work for all languages. It depends on the language set in the book, and the available hyphenation dictionaries on the device.)
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Now I have it as I want it, in all of its full-7.8"-screeny glory. I'll do some actual reading this evening (maybe pick a new font).
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I've noticed that I can now finally read faster again. In the past, I've not read line by line, but in a zig-zag pattern, scanning the page with several lines at once without explicitly reading each word.
I need a few lines to get started on a new page, however, and the Kindle is too short and doesn't have enough line length. When I'm up to speed, the page already ends. Therefore, on the Kindle, I've been reading line by line, and word by word, which has slowed me down considerably. (The better portability, ease of acquiring books, some for very low prices or even free, no huge book cases anymore, backups so I can never loose my books, front-light, etc... have kept me reading on the Kindle instead of returning to paper books.)
With the KA1, I can get up to speed, and fall into a rhythm; when I reach the bottom of the page, I can touch the screen, and it'll turn just in time to keep reading at the same pace.
I started reading in earnest the day before yesterday, and I read 27% of a 311 page book, which means I read 81 pages (using my own custom page count, so it's not really comparable to anything outside of my library), and I spent a lot less time on it than I had expected. On the Kindle, it would have taken me nearly three hours, on the KA1, it took me less than two.